Tumblr (3.0; @bigfatgreg)http://bigfatgreg.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyf8eaPDft1qzsue3o1_r1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p>(via <a href="http://harryroman.com/" class="tumblr_blog">harryroman</a>)</p>http://bigfatgreg.com/post/412639248http://bigfatgreg.com/post/412639248Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:53:52 -0500<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky7lvm2LfF1qzp8sjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote>Tommy Westphall was an austistic child on the TV series St Elsewhere who, it was revealed in the closing moments of the final episode of that series, had dreamt the entire run of the show. St Elsewhere has direct connections to twelve other television series - many of them direct crossovers of character to and from the series. Others make mention of specific parts of the St Elsewhere fictional universe, placing them within the same fictional sphere. If St Elsewhere exists only within Tommy Westphall’s mind, then so does every other series set within the same fictional sphere.</blockquote> <p>Apparently the <a href="http://home.vicnet.net.au/~kwgow/crossovers.html" target="_blank">solipsistic epistemology</a> of St. Elsewhere has ripples extending through a <a href="http://www.nicholaswskyles.com/blog/?p=805" target="_blank">large portion</a> of the american television landscape, and thus my life.</p>http://bigfatgreg.com/post/404088437http://bigfatgreg.com/post/404088437Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:35:30 -0500<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky5shyZ4uS1qzp8sjo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><blockquote>Several months ago his son, Evan, 26, remarked that he thought the eyebrow hairs must be close to a world record. He looked it up in the Guinness Book of World Records, and the record set in 2004 is just a hair over 3 inches. “I went and measured my longest right away, and it was longer” than the current record, Leonard says. “It’s hard to measure yourself, plus looking in the mirror makes things backwards, but I felt I was a world record.”</blockquote> <p>Someday I hope to be unkempt enough to <a href="http://www.ptleader.com/main.asp?SectionID=36&SubSectionID=55&ArticleID=15119" target="_blank">unwittingly set a record.</a></p>http://bigfatgreg.com/post/403243080http://bigfatgreg.com/post/403243080Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:27:46 -0500<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky5muxZKag1qzp8sjo1_r4_500.gif"/><br/><br/>http://bigfatgreg.com/post/400979733http://bigfatgreg.com/post/400979733Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:28:27 -0500<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/prsBoEix72E&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/prsBoEix72E&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Pepé Le Pew on behalf of the McDLT.</p>http://bigfatgreg.com/post/400868641http://bigfatgreg.com/post/400868641Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:15:49 -0500<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kwqmqgMXLw1qzp8sjo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://bigfatgreg.com/post/397214085http://bigfatgreg.com/post/397214085Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:58:30 -0500<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxwwdb7HhL1qzp8sjo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote>Finally numerous monks and nuns, on one occasion 240 Benedictine Monks under the leadership of a Father whose name sounded like Starkiewicz, suddenly moved into my head to perish therein.</blockquote> <p>You so crazy <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Paul_Schreber" target="_blank">Daniel Paul Schreber</a>.</p>http://bigfatgreg.com/post/396950646http://bigfatgreg.com/post/396950646Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:44:30 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxwgvx4s8E1qz8ms6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://madeleinepascal.tumblr.com/post/391314332/a-lost-mixtape-on-1st-avenue-via-my-flickr" class="tumblr_blog">madeleinepascal</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>a lost mixtape on 1st avenue.</p> <p>(via my <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/mittsuniverse">flickr</a>)</p> </blockquote> <p>Some of my very favorite conceptual disco.</p>http://bigfatgreg.com/post/392345498http://bigfatgreg.com/post/392345498Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:56:51 -0500<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxx1j6Ry0P1qzp8sjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Happy Jon Frum day! Can’t believe I almost missed it. From an excellent <a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/john.html#ixzz0ffTEyIeE" target="_blank">2006 article on the</a> subject of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult" target="_blank">Cargo Cults</a>:</p> <blockquote>“You get cargo cults when the outside world, with all its material wealth, suddenly descends on remote, indigenous tribes.” The locals don’t know where the foreigners’ endless supplies come from and so suspect they were summoned by magic, sent from the spirit world. To entice the Americans back after the war, islanders throughout the region constructed piers and carved airstrips from their fields. They prayed for ships and planes to once again come out of nowhere, bearing all kinds of treasures: jeeps and washing machines, radios and motorcycles, canned meat and candy.</blockquote> <p>This is the most sensible religion the world currently offers. They actually saw that shit happen 60 years ago. It also inspired this lovely <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yz97KNxwzU&feature=related" target="_blank">extended analogy</a> from Serge Gainsbourg, wherein he compares the Cargo Cult mentality to his own at the end of an affair.</p>http://bigfatgreg.com/post/392101996http://bigfatgreg.com/post/392101996Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:08:00 -0500<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxww05tAkR1qzp8sjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raccoon_Dog" target="_blank">Racoon dogs</a> are one of two canine species that can climb trees.</p>http://bigfatgreg.com/post/391860205http://bigfatgreg.com/post/391860205Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:55:46 -0500<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/pNj9bXKGOiI&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/pNj9bXKGOiI&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>This clip’s got it all.</p>http://bigfatgreg.com/post/390970276http://bigfatgreg.com/post/390970276Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:27:34 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxdoylcdYy1qzp8sjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>As with all such quantum puzzles, this is only the beginning of the story; now, the experts have to explain what this mathematical result means. The best interpretation of the evidence so far seems to be that we should not think of any object, not even a single atom, as an “isolated system”.</p>http://bigfatgreg.com/post/373264016http://bigfatgreg.com/post/373264016Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:06:19 -0500<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/pNNi5Kcx7VQ&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/pNNi5Kcx7VQ&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Chased by Ducks 2</p>http://bigfatgreg.com/post/361772747http://bigfatgreg.com/post/361772747Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:33:05 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kwtes6cjQO1qzp8sjo1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p>In the most evenhanded, well reasoned article written about this late night TV fiasco, <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704375604575023132215883398.html?mod=WSJ_latestheadlines" target="_blank">WSJ compares Leno to Hitler.</a></p> <blockquote>Jay Leno, much like Adolf Hitler, is a master of making secret demands for foreign territory and then acting like the wronged party. First he pretended that he wanted to annex only the first half-hour of Mr. O’Brien’s “Tonight Show.” Here he was mimicking Hitler, who insisted that he merely wanted to annex the German-speaking Sudetenland, not all of Czechoslovakia.</blockquote>http://bigfatgreg.com/post/352885897http://bigfatgreg.com/post/352885897Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:17:27 -0500<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kwsbq5FxOX1qzp8sjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Some good stuff <a href="http://observatory.designobserver.com/entry.html?entry=12557" target="_blank">here.</a></p>http://bigfatgreg.com/post/351988163http://bigfatgreg.com/post/351988163Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:18:38 -0500<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kwrd5eYDjQ1qzp8sjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.squareamerica.com/blog/?p=500" target="_blank">Eclipse watchers</a> in Chicago. Date unknown.</p>http://bigfatgreg.com/post/351917560http://bigfatgreg.com/post/351917560Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:34:40 -0500<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kwqn1897Yd1qzp8sjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Vimeo vids <a href="http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/2010/01/19/asciimeo/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+todayandtomorrow_net+(today+and+tomorrow)&utm_content=Google+Reader" target="_blank">rendered in ascii</a></p>http://bigfatgreg.com/post/351355843http://bigfatgreg.com/post/351355843Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:41:44 -0500<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CH3rx8LhrQo&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CH3rx8LhrQo&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>This makes me very happy.</p>http://bigfatgreg.com/post/347554036http://bigfatgreg.com/post/347554036Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:27:05 -0500<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kwhbid6XHb1qzp8sjo1_r1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p>Planning my room with <a href="http://sketchup.google.com/" target="_blank">SketchUp</a>.</p>http://bigfatgreg.com/post/342742370http://bigfatgreg.com/post/342742370Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:58:24 -0500<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kwhb8uuHTK1qzp8sjo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>A stirring tribute.</p>http://bigfatgreg.com/post/342182506http://bigfatgreg.com/post/342182506Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:30:23 -0500